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Postal Auction February 2023 - 332

Bids to be received by Thursday 23rd of February 2023 1:00 PM

Lots (1614)

Lot 1273
GREAT BRITAIN - HAND ILLUSTRATED COVERS

1907 Fashionable lady head portrait; blue and black pen and ink on envelope to London bearing 1d red tied London squared circle cancel. Few tones on edges, otherwise pretty cover.

Estimate £ 125.00
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Lot 1274
GREAT BRITAIN - HAND ILLUSTRATED COVERS

1907 Fashionable lady head with hat & bouffant hair; pen and ink on London & NW Railway Co. envelope to Wrexham bearing 1d red tied London 6 lined cancel. Few tones on edges, tape marks across the front corner otherwise pretty cover.

Estimate £ 75.00
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Lot 1275
GREAT BRITAIN - HAND ILLUSTRATED COVERS

1907 Two laughing gentleman in tuxedos; pen and ink hand coloured watercolour on envelope to London bearing 1d red tied London machine 6 line cancel. Few tones on edges and tape residue on three corners, otherwise pretty cover.

Estimate £ 75.00
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Lot 1276
GREAT BRITAIN - HAND ILLUSTRATED COVERS

1908 Fashionable lady head and shoulders portrait; pen and ink hand coloured watercolour on London & NW Railway Co. envelope to Wrexham bearing 1d red tied London 6 lined cancel. Few tones on edges and tape on one corner, otherwise pretty cover.

Estimate £ 100.00
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Lot 1277
GREAT BRITAIN - HAND ILLUSTRATED COVERS

Circa 1905 Around Thirty Four pen and ink hand coloured illustrated postcard sized cards all signed by J Farquharson around 1904-1908, huge range of different subjects including various ladies of fashion head and shoulder portraits, trumpeter, EDVII dated 17th Nov. 1904, shouting boy, beach lady, golfer, RH old man in red uniform, Waiter at Lyons tea room, lady walking her dog, woman beating up man 'Just like the ivy', Native African man in head dress, Billiards, etc, some have tape marks on corners and or toning, all unique and hand drawn and coloured. Joseph Farquharson was a Scottish painter chiefly landscapes mostly famous for his snowy winter landscapes. This formed part of an estate lot of illustrated commercial covers to a Miss Leadbetter in Rosett or London but those were unsigned. Fascinating and totally unique.

Estimate £ 1000.00
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Lot 1278
GREAT BRITAIN - HAND ILLUSTRATED COVERS

Circa 1905 Hand coloured cats on rooftops on unposted envelope to London. Few tones on edges, tape marks across two front corners, otherwise pretty cover.

Estimate £ 40.00
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Lot 1279
GREAT BRITAIN - PRE-STAMP

1767 (21 Oct) Entire Letter Hunger ford to London bearing two line HUNGER / FORD on reverse with 2 charge mark and Bishop Mark 21 / OCR alongside. Usual folds.

Estimate £ 25.00
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Lot 1280
GREAT BRITAIN - PRE-STAMP

1836 (April) Entire Oldham to London bearing faint Oldham P.P. boxed in red with PAID AT MANCHESTER part circle in red and London 'tombstone' E PAID h/s alongside, damaged from opening and horiz. fold with some soiling.

Estimate £ 28.00
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Lot 1281
GREAT BRITAIN - PRE-STAMP

Balance of a useful pre-stamp collection on cover pages including LONGTOWN 307 boxed mileage mark, 1833 Exeter TOO LATE, 1797 Plymouth arc, 1835 ST COLUMD single line in PAID AT STRATFORD part piece, 1788 Edinburgh, Alton Penny Post Front TO PAY 1D ONLY, very mixed, 18 items.

Estimate £ 36.00
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Lot 1282
GREAT BRITAIN - PRE-STAMP

FREE FRONTS - 125 different from 1830s and few earlier pasted into an ancient book, very good range of red cancels, some dual signed, red CDS dates incl rare type E, some identified in pencil incl Woulfe, Stowell, Viscount Dundas & Thomas Masterman Hardy (Rear Admiral on HMS Victory he commanded at Battle of Trafalgar 1805 after Nelson died), J Parrott, Arch Bishop of Canterbury, Marquis of Lansdowne, Ramsbottom, Pusey, Fort, Lord Egmont, Henry Bishop of Salford, Townley, Kilmanoch, Stuart Wortley, Spring Rice, Bathurst, Stanley, Earl of Munster, Lord Byron, Backhouse, McTaggart, Mann Cornwallis, Lord Bexley, Lord Eldon, Bishop Norwich, Robert Peel (Prime minister), Dublin Free, 125 in total, very mixed, fascinating lot.

Estimate £ 375.00
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Lot 1283
Great Britain - Queen Victoria

1840 1d black (BA) Two margin example showing very rare Number 3 in Maltese Cross postmark. Cut into along the top and left side but very neat cancel showing bottom 2/3rds of the cancel and clear No.3. Sound and rare! SG Cat £15,000 for four margins.

Estimate £ 1500.00
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Lot 1284
Great Britain - Queen Victoria

1840 1d black (EL) used red MX cancel and three good to large margins, various faults incl. thins, nice spacefiller.

Estimate £ 25.00
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